by Nancy Griffith | Mar 28, 2023 | Davidson History, News, Top Middle Box
Search for: NEWS Forgotten History, Part III There were a number of plantations just north of the village of Davidson College. Most were in Iredell County, but there was one, that of William and Amelia K. “Milly” White, located in Mecklenburg County. According to...
by Nancy Griffith | Mar 7, 2023 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Forgotten History II: Plantations near Davidson The local slave population was much larger when one considers the numerous large plantations around Davidson, situated in both Mecklenburg and Iredell counties. Slaveowners had settled the region during...
by Nancy Griffith | Mar 2, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Unrecorded History The antebellum history of Davidson and its surrounding communities is rich with accounts of Davidson College, merchants and professionals, prominent families, schools, churches, historic homes, and the plantations that remain from...
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 23, 2023 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Davidson’s First Kindergarten Publicly-funded kindergartens were common in the Northeast and Midwest by 1960. I attended one such kindergarten in Pennsylvania in 1951, under my kind but formidable teacher, Miss Fawcett. North Carolina and the other...
by Nancy Griffith | Feb 6, 2023 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News, Stories from Davidson College
Search for: NEWS Davidson College’s Humble Beginnings On January 17, 1837, the Cheraw Gazette published an account of the fledgling Davidson College, taken in part from the Southern Christian Herald. Projected to open in March of that year, the new institution would...
